MCU Fans Offer Suggestions on How To Keep Magneto’s Origins Comic-Accurate
Magneto will soon arrive in the MCU, and fans are curious about how Marvel Studios will approach his origin story. In 2000’s X-Men, the movie begins by showing Erik Lehnsher entering Auschwitz as a young child, with the trauma causing him to first manifest his ability to control metal. Ian McKellen was the right age to for this origin to make sense back then, but how can the MCU introduce a new version of Magneto in the 2020s that maintains the Holocaust victim status that’s so key to understanding his motivations? Even…